21In the Law it is written: "Through men of strange tongues and through the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me," says the Lord.


In Context

18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

19 But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.

20 Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.

21 In the Law it is written: "Through men of strange tongues and through the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me," says the Lord.

22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.

23 So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who do not understand or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind?

1st Corinthians 14:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:21In the law it is written, With [men of] other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:21In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people; and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:21In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:21It is written in the law, By people of other tongues, and by strange lips, will I speak to this people; and neither thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:21In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:21In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak to this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:21In the law it is written, |By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:21in the law it hath been written, that, 'With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:21In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak to this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, said the LORD.